Nicole Kidman opens up about her life post Tom Cruise divorce, 'I was running from my life at that time'

Post her divorce from Tom Cruise, actress Nicole Kidman "wasn't able to handle reality" and ran from her life. However, she immersed herself in work to mend her broken heart.

"I was running from my life at that time. I wasn't able to handle the reality of my life and as an actor, you have this wonderful thing where you can go and get lost in somebody else's life and become somebody else for a period of time,” Kidman said while appearing at the Women In the World Summit in London, Us Weekly writes.

The 48-year-old actress, who is now happily married to country music singer Keith Urban, adopted children Isabella, 22, and Connor, 20, with Cruise. She even won Best Actress Oscar for her work in “The Hours,” two years after her divorce in 2001, but she did not enjoy her win.

"I was sitting in the Beverly Hills Hotel and it was all extraordinary and I was the loneliest I've ever been,” Kidman said. However, the actress found the entire feeling of lonliness “very strange” and “fantastic” at the same time as she felt it will help “heal” her loss.

However, she was was not “healed” from her introspection and that is when she realised that she needs to figure out what she wanted in her life, as a woman. She spent some time reading and talking but then eventually met Urban and her life seemed more meaningful. The actress now has two daughters with the singer and said she feels the same love for them as she did with Isabella and Connor.

"There's no difference, because you love...and the love is so profound and it's once you have that child and you go, 'Ah, I'm willing to die for this person.' And you see and you feel that, and that, that changes everything, doesn't it? I love children," she added.

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